national security Archives - Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

System Perspective

By APCSS Editor|2023-09-19T14:35:09-10:00September 19th, 2023|

By Francis Hualupmomi, PhD The author is a political scientist specializing in the area of energy security, energy governance, and geopolitics of resources. He holds a PhD in Public Policy from Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), a Master of International Politics from Jilin University (P.R, China), and a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Political Science from the University of Papua New Guinea. He is currently the Deputy Secretary for Policy at the PNG Department of Higher Education Research Science & Technology. He also provides strategic policy advice to the Government of Papua New Guinea on national security affairs. The views [...]

A Biodefense Fusion Center to Improve Disease Surveillance and Early Warnings to Enhance National Security

By APCSS Editor|2021-09-20T13:01:54-10:00September 20th, 2021|

By Michael Baker1, Jacob Baker2, Deon Canyon3, Sebastian Kevany3 ABSTRACT Intelligence gathering that includes disease surveillance is an important early warning tool that strengthens decision-making capability and national security. U.S. military, medical assets, and intelligence agencies – and those of our allies are crucial for early detection and response in the future fights against emergent disease outbreaks. It is time to establish a BioDefense Fusion Center. Our intelligence agencies, laboratories, civilian institutions, assets of our allies and partner nations, social media and data mining can be interwoven with technology and leveraged for mutual defense. The basic pillars of an early [...]

Wargaming Future National Security Threats Posed by Emerging Vector-Borne Diseases

By APCSS Editor|2021-08-17T16:11:16-10:00August 17th, 2021|

By Deon Canyon DBA PhD MPH FACTM [*] Introduction The year 2020 was notable for the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic with 83,927,835 reported cases and 1,834,358 deaths, but few people beyond infectious disease experts were aware that in the same year, hundreds of millions were afflicted by vector-borne diseases, such as malaria and Dengue, that killed over 700,000 people.[1] Vector-borne diseases (VBD) have been a threat to human health for centuries, and while many people consider diseases like malaria to be an African problem, arboviruses such as West Nile virus, Dengue fever, Zika virus and Chikungunya virus have emerged and spread in [...]

Perceptions of U.S. Posture in Papua New Guinea

By APCSS Editor|2020-10-14T10:59:37-10:00October 14th, 2020|

This article compares the effects of U.S. posture on the relationship with Papua New Guinea, to that of the People’s Republic of China, along with other influences. Excerpt In Papua New Guinea (PNG), activities by the United States were highly visible in World War II, but have steadily declined ever since. This decay in international relations has been more obvious since the early 2000s when it is contrasted with the rise of Chinese-PNG relations on a political level and on a person-to-person level through infrastructure development and overseas education. The 2011-2012 Obama era Pivot and Rebalance to the Pacific produced [...]

Strategic Competition, National Security and the Need for ‘Competitive Intelligence’

By APCSS Editor|2020-10-14T10:53:48-10:00October 14th, 2020|

This article illustrates how Competitive intelligence lies at the center of any strategy to maintain political, economic and security posture in the Indo-Pacific region. Excerpt We live in an age in which technology is rapidly transforming every aspect of our lives. Since these advances bestow upon nations considerable advantages, they are coveted and sought after with increasing criminally-motivated avarice. This has increased tensions and competition between the great powers, which forces us to analyze how to compete in the present and the coming future. In this age of significant cooperation and competition, we all need a competitive edge to survive [...]

Vietnam’s National Security Architecture

By APCSS Editor|2020-04-02T11:19:25-10:00November 28th, 2018|

Overview of Vietnam’s National Interests In Vietnam’s policy discourse, the concept of national interests is sometimes used in distinction from the interests of particular social classes and sometimes in contrast to ideology. The discourse has witnessed in the decades following the Cold War’s end a steadily increasing emphasis on the national interest that implies that national interests should trump class interests and ideology if there is a conflict between them. This emphasis also gave rise to a broader sense of national interests understood as encompassing the needs for survival and development of the nation that are recognized and pursued by [...]

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